Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin) - CardsActive

The opportunity

SumUp builds simple, affordable financial tools that help small businesses get paid, manage their money, and grow. Beyond payments, we offer a number of financial products - including business banking, card products, lending, and invoicing — giving merchants everything they need…

What you'll do

  • Own and drive the end-to-end delivery of backend services within the Cards EU: domain, including observability, testing, and production support

  • Lead architectural discussions and shape the technical roadmap by proposing: solutions for complex, distributed systems challenges

  • Partner with engineers in adjacent squads and the product manager to shape and refine the squad backlog

  • Mentor engineers through code and design reviews, pragmatic technical trade: offs, and knowledge sharing that raises the team's engineering standards

  • Participate in incident reviews and the on-call rotation, taking: accountability for the reliability of the services the team builds

  • Apply and champion AI tooling to accelerate engineering workflows, and help: raise the team's overall AI literacy